Drum Pets: your friendly neighbourhood psytrance artist

I’ve always been a sound geek. I love sounds, and particularly movie sound, from well crafted soundscapes and effects, via intricate orchestral composition to foley. A good friend of mine is getting serious with his amateur film projects, and he asked me to do the music for his very first short. As it turned out, I took it upon me to do all the foley and sound design too, and I’d like to share my experience using Live for this task.(more…)

Drum Pets: your friendly neighbourhood psytrance artist

I’ve been playing around with Live Suite 9 for quite awhile now during the beta period, and at the time of writing this – two days after the release – I’ve installed all the Suite content I’m interested in for the moment and the latest version of LPC-Live for my Launchpad. I decided to write down some thoughts on Live’s latest incarnation and how I feel it has progressed since version 8; it can be quite hard to keep track of all your thoughts and impulses during a beta test phase, so I think it’s time for me to see if I can form a more “big picture” view of it all.